Tiv - Lime Live Louder Rough Book

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For Comiket 78, Tiv released two complimentary illustration doujinshi, one of which was full of rough black and white illustrations called Lime Live Louder. This collection reminds me of CUTEG’s Oishii Seikatsu, another well-presented monochrome collection released earlier this year.

Lime Live Louder is 36 pages with covers, opens landscape style, and reads from left to right. I mentioned this because it’s not very common with doujinshi and that the other half of Tiv’s release, Wireless Lemon, is the complete opposite. The cover (and inside covers) are the only color portions of this collection, with the cover art repeated on the back inside cover. The title text is embossed and it glitters when you angle it.

The art work is sectioned off, with rough sketches and line arts from several of Tiv’s recent commercial works. The first section is Inutsuki-san, a light novel for print and online from the Square Enix Web Magazine Gangan Online. It looks very cute, especially with all the little spirit dogs, wolves and foxes.

The second section features sketches from The Time Bank Financier, which ran in The Sneaker. There are six pages dedicated to this section and six for the previous one. Even though they are sketches, the line works are very clean and defined. You can get a real sense of how Tiv works!

The next section lacks copyright information or a title, so to my knowledge they’re original works by Tiv. The characters with their wings and uniforms are very reminiscent of the ones from Shigofumi – Letters from the Departed. This section runs 8 pages and is sketchier than the rest, but the uniforms and character designs are really cute!

The final section of the book starts out with another of Tiv’s original works, called Hatsukoi Flag! but moves into some game and fan art illustrations without a clear separation. There are also three pages of sports girls, with inked monochrome lines instead of penciled. There’s also a fan art from The IdolM@ster.

It’s a nice monochrome collection, though I’d still say that Wireless Lemon is the real meat of Tiv’s Comiket 78 release, but this feels like a nice extra!